Saturday, January 5, 2008

Oh Be Still My Fucking Heart

So Dubya has to kinda sorta admit that the economy is not the total bed of roses the republicunts have been claiming for the past 7 yrs. Of course Dubya wouldn't be the insane criminal we've all grown to love and adore without still managing to come up with clueless gems such as: Our economy is on a firm foundation. Right. SAND should be so firm as an economy built on retail buying of foreign made goods, financed by debt.

Our "CEO Preznit." Our first Preznit with an MBA. An MBA from Haavud no less. Gotta make sane people wonder about things there. Do I want my kid to have a pedigree? or do I want my kid to get an education?

He got a "C in Economics, but an A in keeping taxes low." How fucking moronic? You CAN NOT spend more than you take in without eventually going bankrupt. Someone with a Harvard MBA should at least be able to balance a fucking check book!!!! So....

Unemployment is at a 2 year high of what... 5 %? On the one hand that's not outrageously high; on the other hand, the only reason unemployment is not through the fucking roof is that Dubya and crime lords refuse to even consider the possibility of extending unemployment benefits.

Quicky Quiz here kids: What happens to a person when their unemployment runs out? Are they:A) Employed?B) Unemployed?C) Every bit as lost as if they'd fallen off the edge of the Republicunts' flat earth, never to be heard from again? (except by people and Preznits who actually give a fuck about minor details like, you know, reality)

Core inflation is low, although food and gasoline prices are high. Funny how Dub's gubmint omits two of the very most basic necessities of life from their calculations of inflation. And let's not forget how fucked up housing is.

We cannot take economic growth for granted. Here's some growth for ya:

Thom Hartmann repeatedly points out how under Ronnie Raygun the US was the world's largest importer of raw materials and the largest exporter of finished goods. In just 27 years, 19 of which were under Repug tyranny, 8 under a would-be-Centrist compromiser, 4 Preznits total, the US economy has been totally turned on it's head. We are now a Third World economy: Exporting out raw materials, and importing our finished goods; we rank #1 in both categories. Wanna talk about National Security? Explain how we'll be able to equip an army when we have no fucking industry to make anything an army needs? We gonna buy guns and bullets from China?

Anyway....

Back to the Moronic Genius...

We may need an "economic stimulus package." In other words, "Oh goody, goody. An excuse for another tax cut!" Come on people... Tax cuts ARE his economic policy. They are his answer to everything. Gubmint has too much money/a surplus? Cut taxes(for rich people.) Gubmint has (record) deficits? Cut taxes (for rich people.) Economy is down and needs a boost? Cut taxes (for rich people.) Economy's going well and needs to be sustained? Cut taxes (for rich people.) Tax cuts don't keep the economy going? Wait... that can't be right. Tax cuts CAN'T cause a problem; must not have cut 'em enough; cut 'em some more (for rich people.)

If the people who benefited from such assenine notions and practices were the only ones who voted for those who espoused them, Conservatism would dry up and wither away. The problem is that 25-30% of the voting population who for some inexplicable reason... they don't read, can't read, refuse to acknowledge reality... vote for their own demise. They will never ever see and/or acknowledge the simplicity of the fallacy behind this -- and every other -- Dubya Conservative Repug policy. How can they be so easily duped? It continually amazes me. Disheartens me. Scares the fuck out of me.

Just how fucking bad does it have to get for you homeless, jobless, uninsured morons before you see reality for what it really is?

2 comments:

some more fun facts ---he wants to give everyone (including people like bill gates) a $500 refund

wow -- payoff SOME of the credit card that you used to pay for the medication you need for your kids or 3 tanks of gas on the SUV or the christmas gifts or the mortgage you cant afford.

lets further get the treasury in debt so our kids really can live in Hooverville all over again and learn first hand what their ancient relatives had to do when they PREVIOUSLY had a CEO/President in 1930.

those 25% who continue to vote for their demise - puhleeze -- GOD will save them from the clutches of the nasty gays and liberal media - who are misleading the world about their fearless leader.

as for the C student -- Chimpy constantly reminds he was the C student and CONDI was the A student -- and see what that has gotten us

I Confess:

I'm tempted to resurrect this blog, but I'm well aware of my own laziness and lack of ability to follow though on things. BUT... Weak or strong, loud or faint, can there really be too many voices against the wave of fascism that has given rise to Trump as president?